You know you are getting old when:

[Tiki Tom]

What, no Members Only jacket? Hmmm...

Of course I had a Members Only jacket! What do you take me for, sir? And a pair of Angels Flights. Although now I might be mixing my decades. (?)

 

[tonyb]

... your mother, of all people, makes a point of telling you about what great times can be had at your local senior center.

Yes, she had us young. Quite.

 

[Helysoune]

Twenty years ago, extreme boot-cut jeans became big fashion in early 2000, in old Germany.

I remember it very well, because suddenly all teen- and twen-girls and some boys had them. With stupid looking low and wide flares. Elephant jeans...

Apparently they're on the way back "in" again! I've seen both the late 90s style, as well as some pure 70s throwbacks.

 

[GHT]

The 1980s, in part, are now 40 years ago. That blows me away. I remember like yesterday when 40 years ago, it was the second world war...

In the last few weeks, there has been many a radio station in the UK celebrating 50 years of bridge Over Troubled Water. Fifty years!

‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ went to number one in ten countries and was the best-selling album of the 1970’s, bringing home six Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Engineered Recording.

The title track also won the Grammy for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Contemporary Song of the Year, and the Instrumental Arrangement of the Year in 1971.

The album has been certified 8x Platinum by the RIAA and has sold an estimated 25 million copies worldwide.

 

[Tiki Tom]

I suspect there are many loungers who still know the lyrics to Bridge Over Troubled Water by heart. (Once upon a time, I probably had most of the songs on that album memorized. Ah, “the boxer”.)

 

[tonyb]

In the last few weeks, there has been many a radio station in the UK celebrating 50 years of bridge Over Troubled Water. Fifty years!
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‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ went to number one in ten countries and was the best-selling album of the 1970’s, bringing home six Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Engineered Recording.

The title track also won the Grammy for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Contemporary Song of the Year, and the Instrumental Arrangement of the Year in 1971.

The album has been certified 8x Platinum by the RIAA and has sold an estimated 25 million copies worldwide.

It’s a great recording. One measure of any popular entertainment’s influence is how it wears over time. Half a century will work for me.

 

[Edward]

I'll never forget the first time I ever saw MTV -- January 1983, at the "Wash 'n Fun Laundromat" in Santa Barbara, California. They had a big TV set mounted above the washing machines and played MTV continuously -- with no sound. I had no idea such a thing existed, and the visuals without the audio were absolutely incomprehensible. (And as I later discovered, they weren't even comprehensible *with* the audio.)

Back when I was an undergraduate, every bar in Belfast had at least one screen with MTV running on it on silent.... and other music on the pa. I could never understand that...

I suspect there are many loungers who still know the lyrics to Bridge Over Troubled Water by heart. (Once upon a time, I probably had most of the songs on that album memorized. Ah, “the boxer”.)

My parents owned that record on cassette, played it a lot. Course, the definitive rendition of BOTW itself was by Elvis, as both Simon and Garfunkel agreed.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Still a popular song, in Germany too! But already half of a century old.

But my favorite:

 

[belfastboy]

Yep, we have now three clear evolutionary steps.

The middle-aged and older still reading newspaper. We 30+ still listening to radio and watching TV. The youngsters smart only smombies...

I am (was) a newspaper junkie with home delivery of 3 papers. A few years back at my wife's urging I switched to online. I love it, I now have access to them when I travel, no more black smudges on the light switch wall plates and no more stacks of newspapers waiting to be taken out to the recycle bin. I am certifiably a senior citizen.

 

[Zombie_61]

Of course I had a Members Only jacket! What do you take me for, sir? And a pair of Angels Flights. Although now I might be mixing my decades. (?)

As best I can remember, and I make no promises, Angels Flight pants were popular in the mid- to late-70s and Members Only jackets were popular in the early-80s. Surely someone somewhere must have worn both at the same time at least once.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Oh F..K, I remember "conversations" person to person!!

 

[tonyb]

As best I can remember, and I make no promises, Angels Flight pants were popular in the mid- to late-70s and Members Only jackets were popular in the early-80s. Surely someone somewhere must have worn both at the same time at least once.

Sheeit! I was wearin’ that just yesterday,

 

[Tiki Tom]

Sheeit! I was wearin’ that just yesterday,

A classic look. Regrettably, If I still had those items, I doubt if I could still fit into them. I don't think anyone would like to see the modern me squeezed into a pair of Angel's Flights.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
Seriously, though, I have never “kept up” with fashion, not even when I was of an age when people are likelier to concern themselves with such things. It might have been that I had some items of attire that were currently in vogue, but that would probably have been because it was marked way down, which might be taken as a sign that its moment was soon to expire.

Which is not to say I pay no mind to what I put on my back. It’s just that I find the more timeless styles a better look for me. (And for most people, really, but that’s an opinion I keep to myself, outside of contexts such as this one, where I’m likely to find agreement.)

 

[GHT]

^^^^^
Seriously, though, I have never “kept up” with fashion, not even when I was of an age when people are likelier to concern themselves with such things.

At the zenith of their fame, in the 1960's, a British high court judge remarked, after some quip in his courtroom: "Who pray, are The Beatles?" I can't remember the details but I do remember the judge, it was James Pickles. The press lampooned him, serves him right was my thought.

Fast forward thirty years and a pop band name of: "Take That," were the band of the early 90's, here in the UK. I only found that out after making a similar faux pas to that of Judge Pickles.

The cell phone was yet to be of a cost that companies could issue them to their sales force and managers, what we did have were pagers. Call the pager, the recipient then phoned the office on a public phone, transferring the charge, what others name as call collect.

On this particular day I had been repeatedly paging one of my sales staff, he had a good prospect and I needed to get hold of him before his prospect slipped off the hook. Finally a call from the phone operator told me that Gary Barlow was calling and would we accept the charge? Gary Who? Thinking that it might be a temporary staff member I called out around the office, "Have we got a driver from the agency, name of Gary Barlow?" Silly grins all round, "What have I said that's so funny?" It was then that I heard over the operators voice, "Robert, it's me, Paul." "Yes, yes, operator, we will accept the charge," "Paul, what was all that about Gary Barlow?" "You really don't know, do you?" Paul replied. "Not a clue." Paul and I conducted our business and we got on with our day.

But the silly grins persisted all day, just as she was leaving to go home, Janet, my secretary, put her head around my office door and said, "Gary Barlow, is the lead singer of the biggest band of the moment." "And I have just done a James Pickles, haven't I?" I said. Janet, who was about my age and clearly remembered the Judge's remark, replied, "And how!"

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you still remember granduncles with salted lakritz.

 

[GHT]

When you realise that Friday 13th March was Neil Sedaka's 81st birthday.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you watched Mr. Belvedere in the 90s.

I loved him!

 

[Lean'n'mean]

When your age puts you on the COVID-19's hit list.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you realize you've been on eBay longer than some of the people you work with have been alive.

When you realize, you've never been on ebay and Amazon...